7-letter words containing u
- abusive — Someone who is abusive behaves in a cruel and violent way towards other people.
- abustle — Showing much activity. (First attested in the mid 20th century.).
- abuttal — abuttals. those parts of one piece of land that abut on adjacent lands; boundaries. Also, buttals. Law. the boundary lines of a piece of land in relation to adjacent lands.
- abutted — to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or border (often followed by on, upon, or against): This piece of land abuts on a street.
- abutter — the owner of adjoining property
- abyssus — (obsolete) alternate form of abyss.
- acajous — Plural form of acajou.
- acaudal — having no tail
- acausal — having no cause.
- account — If you have an account with a bank or a similar organization, you have an arrangement to leave your money there and take some out when you need it.
- accourt — to be courteous towards
- accrual — In finance, the accrual of something such as interest or investments is the adding together of interest or different investments over a period of time.
- accrued — to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
- accrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrue.
- accurse — to curse or consign to damnation, perdition, or misery
- accurst — under a curse; doomed; ill-fated.
- accusal — accusation
- accused — You can use the accused to refer to a person or a group of people charged with a crime or on trial for it.
- accusee — One who is accused.
- accuser — An accuser is a person who says that another person has done something wrong, especially that he or she has committed a crime.
- accuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accuse.
- accusor — Alternative spelling of accuser.
- ace out — a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot: He dealt me four aces in the first hand.
- acequia — a ditch for irrigation
- acerous — having no antennae.
- acetous — containing, producing, or resembling acetic acid or vinegar
- acicula — a needle-shaped part, such as a spine, prickle, or crystal
- acinous — consisting of acini.
- aciurgy — Operative surgery.
- acouasm — a nonverbal auditory hallucination, as a ringing or hissing.
- acouchi — any of several South American rodents of the genus Myoprocta, closely related to the agoutis but much smaller, with a white-tipped tail: family Dasyproctidae
- acousma — acouasm.
- acquest — an acquisition
- acquire — If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you.
- acquiry — (obsolete): acquirement.
- acquist — an acquisition
- acquits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquit.
- act out — If you act out an event which has happened, you copy the actions which took place and make them into a play.
- actuals — Plural form of actual.
- actuary — An actuary is a person who is employed by insurance companies to calculate how much they should charge their clients for insurance.
- actuate — If a person is actuated by an emotion, that emotion makes them act in a certain way. If something actuates a device, the device starts working.
- aculeus — a prickle or spine, such as the thorn of a rose
- acumens — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- acushla — darling: a term of endearment
- acutely — If you feel or notice something acutely, you feel or notice it very strongly.
- acutest — Superlative form of acute.
- acylium — (organic chemistry) Any acyl cation R-C+=O derived from a carboxylic acid.
- adamkus — Valdas. born 1926, Lithuanian politician, president of Lithuania (1998–2003, 2004–2009))
- adduced — Simple past tense and past participle of adduce.
- adducer — someone who adduces